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THE RUMFORD PRESS 

CONCORD, N. H. 

1919 



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CONTENTS 

Foreword 7 

Union College — An Appreciation 9 

Faculty and Officers 6*f Union College during '68 Period . . 13 

Personal Records, Class 1868 24 

Decennial Reunion 40 

Fortieth Year Reunion 44 

Forty-Fifth Year Reunion 44 

Fiftieth Year Reunion 45 

The Old Elm 49 



ILLUSTRATIONS 

Union College, 1868 7 

Eliphalet Nott, D.D., LL.D 8 

Laurens P. Hickok, D.D., LL.D 11 

Charles A. Richmond, D.D., LL.D 11 

Faculty and Officers during '68 Period 12 

Gillespie Vacant Chair and Engineering Class '68 14 

Class of 1868, Junior Year 21 

Class of 1868, Senior Year 22 

Engineering Class, 1868 23 

President H. E. Webster 38 

Union College, 1918 39 

Members '68 at 45th Year Reunion 45 

Members '68 at 50th Year Reunion 46 

Terrace Seat 47 

The Old Elm 48 



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Union College, 1868 



FOREWORD 

The committee in charge of the half-century Record of the 
Class of 1868 has made much effort to render it as complete as 
possible. All printed reports issued by the class and college, 
supplemented by correspondence and otherwise have been 
utilized. 

The necessary incompleteness of the Record is in part ex- 
plained by the fact that for various reasons some members of 
the class have failed to report at the class reunions, or to reply 
to official communications. This condition more or less exists 
in all class records and in all colleges. Besides it has been im- 
possible for obvious reasons to secure such fullness of statistics 
as classes in some American colleges now seek to obtain. It 
may also be noted that until a comparatively recent period the 
College has not sought to keep track of its old students and 
alumni with the care and energy now manifested. 

It is, however, a matter for congratulation that a large amount 
of interesting data have been collated, and embodied in the Rec- 
ord as it now appears. 

The cover is printed in garnet, the present college color; in 
1868, the college color was magenta. 

The committee wishes to acknowledge the co-operation re- 
ceived from many sources in the preparation of this Record. 
The assistance of Professor J. I. Bennett and Mr. C. N. Wal- 
dron, secretary of the Graduate Council, has been so valuable 
as to merit special mention. 

The record is now placed before the members of the class 
who remain after the lapse of half a century. It is the hope of 
the committee that the Record may be valued and interesting to 
their classmates, and in some degree to all friends of Union 
College. 

W. H. Clark 
D. M. Dunning 
W. Scott 

Committee 



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ELIPHALET NOTT, D.D., LL.D. 
President of Union College, 1804-1866 



Perseverantia omnia vincit 



— President Nott's Motto 



UNION COLLEGE— AN APPRECIATION 

The Class of 1868 was in college during part of the Civil War 
and the years immediately following that great struggle. Prior 
to the war Union College was one of the largest colleges of the 
United States in attendance. Its fame and influence were 
coterminous with the nation. President Eliphalet Nott, for 
more than half a century at the head of the college, was among 
the ablest of American college presidents. He was one of the 
most versatile men of his time, eminent as a pulpit and plat- 
form orator, a reformer of college discipline and of the curricu- 
lum, an inspiring teacher, a great inventor, an original scientific 
investigator, a citizen of influence in the state and nation. 
While the class was in college, President Nott was much past 
his active service and in extreme old age. He died in 1866 at the 
age of ninety-three years. He shaped the policy and spirit of 
the college so that at the period referred to it was still marked 
by hospitality to new issues, appreciative of all areas of knowl- 
edge and achievement, and by the conviction that education 
and its diffusion were fundamental to the nation. The pioneer 
era had not yet passed for new commonwealths were rising to 
the west, and the problems related thereto and great questions 
as slavery and other national interests were uppermost. The 
service of President Nott during his active administration and 
the spirit of Union College have not in our view had adequate 
interpretation. They should both be better known. A group 
of educators was recently asked to make a list of the six greatest 
American college presidents of the past. All agreed in placing 
Eliphalet Nott of Union, Francis Wayland (a graduate and for 
a time instructor at Union) of Brown, and Mark Hopkins of 
Williams on the list. They agreed on no other name. 

Subsequent to the Civil War the prominence of the college 
declined. The free state universities were founded in the new 
states of the west, and southern students generally attended 
home institutions. Various other causes for a time detracted 
from the strength of the college. Later a revival of interest in 
Union College began. Union University was formed, including 
the college and various professional schools in Albany; the 
engineering department was greatly expanded, and the re- 
sources of the college generally enlarged. It holds a good rank 
among American institutions and has a promising outlook. 
The college property has been improved; it has an able presi- 
dent and faculty and a growing body of students. The world 
war has affected the college, as is the case with all the colleges 
of the country, but in the after-war period its prosperity and 
usefulness will continue to increase. 

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It is a question with some of the old alumni whether Union 
College or University may not become in the future the local 
center of a state university. A great inland city, as President 
Nott foresaw, is now developed near the state capital, including 
Schenectady, Troy, Albany and other populous communities. 
New York state has as yet no state university while most of the 
states, all inferior to New York in wealth and population, have 
founded strong state universities with education practically free 
to both sexes. The present extensive property of the college, 
its location, central as to the area of the state and near the for- 
estry work in the Adirondacks and to the capital with its 
museum, library and other educational material, and the hon- 
orable history of the college furnish a foundation second to 
none in the state and seem to indicate that it has an opportunity 
to promote a university scheme for the state. The ideal of 
equal educational opportunity is now widespread. The world 
war emphasizes the necessity of training all the people to the 
level of their capacity. The great Atlantic states will doubtless, 
with or independent of federal aid, meet this issue with wisdom 
and liberality as has been done in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne- 
sota, Texas, California and other states. The state university 
of New York, when developed, will probably rank with the 
best in the world. A university scheme might by affiliation 
and similar methods comprise all higher institutions of the 
state on an adaptive and comprehensive policy. It might 
hinder none, but strengthen all, in the development of worthy 
ambitions. It might make higher education free and accessible 
to the people of the state, one of the issues now facing modern 
democracy the world over. In this connection the location, 
history and spirit of Union College qualify it for leadership. 

Since 1868 the following buildings have been erected on the 
college grounds: Nott Memorial Hall (Library), Washburne 
Hall, Silliman Hall, Electrical Laboratory, General Engineering 
Building, Butterfield Memorial Laboratory, two faculty houses, 
nine fraternity houses. 

Various funds, as noted in the college publications, have been 
given to the college since 1868. Recently a fund of $750,000 
has been bequeathed from the Russell Sage estate. The income 
will go to salary increase and other objects. 

The future of the college is of deep interest to all who have 
been privileged to pursue their studies under its direction, and 
to none more so than to the members of the Class of 1868 at 
their 50th year reunion. 



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FACULTY AND OFFICERS 

Union College During Period of Class 1868 

JOHN A. De REMER, born Charlton, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1835; 
grad. U. C, 1857; Phi Beta Kappa; one of the founders of 
Alpha Delta Phi Union Chapter; tutor of mathematics, U. C, 
1858-65; adj. prof, of same, 1865-6; president United Chapters 
of Phi Beta Kappa 1887-1907; studied law in Schenectady, 
admitted to bar in 1867, practised law until his death; post- 
master of Schenectady, 1871-5 and 1881-5; influential in 
bringing Edison (later General) Electric Company to the city; 
president Mohawk National Bank and prominent in various 
city organizations; trustee, U. C, alumni 1871-8, permanent, 
1887-1907; married June 12, 1888, Laura C. Warring of 
Schenectady, who survives; one daughter, Eleanor C, who is 
living and married; died Schenectady, June 30, 1907. He was 
attractive in person and manner, a good "mixer," master of 
classroom work, much liked by all who came under his instruction. 

JOHN FOSTER, LL.D., born Aug. 18, 1811, Hebron, N. Y.; 
grad. U. C, 1835; Phi Beta Kappa; teacher Fairfield, N. Y., 
academy one year; tutor U. C, 1836; prin. No. Pearl St. Acad- 
emy, Albany, N. Y., 1837; adj. prof, mathematics and natural 
philosophy, 1838-49 ; prof, of same, 1849-85 ; prof, emeritus, 1885- 
97; died Boston, Mass., Oct. 19, 1897, buried in college burial 
ground, Schenectady. Author "Elementary Treatise on Mag- 
netism, Electricity, Galvinism, Electro-Magnetism and Acous- 
tics" (printed for his classes). Officially connected with Phi 
Beta Kappa for many years, efficient in establishing engineering 
course and securing apparatus in physics. We recall him as a 
genial and friendly gentleman, a good teacher, affectionately 
called "Jack Foster"; his philosophical apparatus, frictional 
electrical experiments when we were shocked; the later vast 
electrical developments were not foreseen or imagined. Famil- 
iarly "Jack Foster," not, however, to his face; upright in char- 
acter, stern in mien, yet in him was an underlying charming 
kindliness; just to a fault, if that is possible, no friendship deep 
enough to blind him to failure in the class room; himself thor- 
ough, he required thoroughness in the students. 

GEORGE W. GILBERT, grad. U. C, 1847; registrar 
U. C, 1855-68; later a newspaper man in Schenectady; died 
Schenectady, 1881. For many years, as registrar, he rendered 
a service worthy of record, sending out our term marks, the 
college bills, and if anything went wrong, writing letters for the 

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Faculty to our homes. He seemed to us cheerful and faithful 
in the discharge of his duties, always at his post, prompt and 
alert. May the college always have in its office a service marked 
by the same fidelity and efficiency. 

WILLIAM MITCHELL GILLESPIE, LL.D., born New 
York, 1818; died 1868 in New York City; grad. Columbia Col- 
lege, 1834; prof, of civil engineering, U. C., 1845 until his death; 
author of "Rome as seen by a New Yorker" (1845), "Roads 
and Railroads" (7th ed. 1854), "Philosophy of Mathematics 
from French of Auguste Comte" (1851), "Land Surveying" 
(6th ed. 1858), "Roadmaking" (1859), "Treatise on Leveling, 
Topography and Higher Surveying" (posthumous, ed. by Cady 
Staley, 1871); work on "Roads and Railroads" said to be the 
best treatise on the subject in English; a tribute to his memory 
by one of the engineering class of 1868 follows. 

This group taken in the spring of 1868 constitutes the last 
class to receive instruction from Professor Gillespie, and the 
first class in charge of Professor Staley. The massive vacant 




Bell, Jordan, Calkins, Wallis 
Taylor, Bacon, Evans, Vacant Chair, Prof. Staley, Bellamy, Dunning 

chair of oak, for many years occupied by our revered Gillespie, 
was also an object of some reverence to the class as one of our 
stunts was a reproduction of it in perspective in natural colors. 

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The writer remembers a somewhat impressive incident the 
last time that Professor Gillespie appeared at one of our recita- 
tions. It was his desire to supervise the recitations while 
Professor Staley conducted them. On this occasion, Staley had 
given us in his clear and concise manner a practical and, I think, 
an original solution of a difficult feature of railroad construction 
in which Professor Gillespie had shown great interest. After 
the class was dismissed, I remained a moment to arrange some 
notes, when Gillespie approached Staley and taking his hand 
said in a loud whisper (for he had almost lost his voice) "I am 
not coming any more. You know more about it than I do." 
Professor Staley was visibly affected as they locked arms and 
went out of the door together. And so we lost our beloved 
Gillespie for his death followed soon after. 

Dear "Old Geod" as we called him for his pet hobby was 
"geodesy" with the "skew arch" a close second, and any student 
who shone in these was a joy to his heart. He was a great man 
and a great teacher, quiet, unassuming, very exacting, but equally 
appreciative and always a gentleman. It was a great privilege 
to have him for one short year. 

LAURENS PERSEUS HICKOK, D.D., LL.D., born Bethel 
Conn., Dec. 29, 1798; died Amherst, Mass., May 7, 1888; grad. 
U. C., 1820; in pastoral work until 1836; prof, of theology, 
Western Reserve College, 1836-44; Auburn Theological Semi- 
nary, 1844-52; vice-pres. and prof, mental and moral science, 
U. C, 1852-66, when he succeeded Dr. Nott as president; re- 
tired from presidency in 1868; resided at Amherst, Mass., 
devoting himself to study and writing; author of "Rational 
Psychology" (1848), "Moral Science" (1853), "Empirical Psy- 
chology" (1854), "Rational Cosmology" (1858), "Creator and 
Creation" (1872), "Humanity Immortal" (1872), "Logic of 
Reason" (1874); a large bodied man, wise and kindly in spirit 
but brusque and direct in manner, a rolling gait, a black cane 
striking the stone walk; some classicals called him "Hie, Haec, 
Hoc"; fine example of old-time president, strong yet gentle, 
dignified but friendly and approachable. We thought him a 
great man though different from his predecessor, Dr. Nott. 

ISAAC W. JACKSON, LL.D., born Cornwall, N. Y. (par- 
ents of Society of Friends), Aug. 28, 1804; grad. U. C, 1826; 
tutor, 1826-31; prof, mathematics and natural philosophy, 
1831 until his death; Captain, Co. A, U. C, 1828 (U. C. then 
had military drill); LL.D., Hobart College; 50th year celebra- 
tion of connection with U. C. when Dr. Tayler Lewis, lifelong 
friend and associate made a memorial address; his son, William, 

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killed in the Civil War; died Schenectady, July 28, 1877. Author 
of " Conic Sections" (new ed. 1854), "Optics" (new ed. 1854). 
A man of distinction in his field, an able and pleasant teacher, 
greatly devoted to the college garden, usually called "Captain 
Jack's garden," practically made by him and celebrated among 
the gardens of the country. Professor Henry of Smithsonian, 
a lifelong friend, called him "the truest and most generous soul 
he ever knew." Called " Captain Jack " as we supposed because 
for many years he directed the Commencement procession but, 
as above noted, it was besides a title handed down from 1828; 
his horse, somewhat old, drew a conveyance also old, and was 
called "Co-sine." President E. Nott Potter delivered a memo- 
rial sermon on Professor Jackson at Commencement, 1878 
(published) which has further information. Dear old "Captain 
Jack"! Kindhearted even to tenderness, poor indeed must his 
work be who could not pass the ordeal of his examinations. Yet 
as I recall him, after fifty years, making his recitation hour a 
season of real helpfulness to those who sought to master the 
subjects he taught. But to really know him one must know 
his garden for in its beauty was portrayed the beauty of his 
character. 

TAYLER LEWIS, LL.D., born Northumberland, N. Y., 
March 27, 1802; died Schenectady, N. Y., May 7, 1877; grad. 
IT. C, 1820; studied law in Albany, practised in Fort Miller 
but gave most of his time to classical literature; prof, of Greek 
at New York University, 1838; at U. C, 1849 until his death; 
author of "Nature and Ground of Punishment" (1844), "Plato 
contra Atheos" (1845), "Six Days of Creation" (1855) 
"The Bible and Science" (1856), "The Divine Human in 
Scripture" (1860), "State Rights, a Photograph from Ancient 
Greece" (1864), "The People of Africa" (jointly), edited Job 
and Genesis (Lange Commentary), translated Plato's Theatae- 
tus, contributor to reviews and magazines; admirable in lecture 
room, eloquent in public address, conspicuous among American 
scholars and thinkers in his day, scholar, author, publicist; 
greatly respected by all students of the college. (Sketch in 
National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 10; 131-2, 
also memorial discourse at Commencement, 1877, by ex-Pres. E. 
Nott Potter containing a full list of his writings.) The motto 
selected by Dr. Lewis to be placed on the library building is 
typical of his character, "Vita brevis, opus multum, merces 
magna, Magister domus urguet." 

WILLIAM C. MACY, grad. U. C, 1860; Phi Beta Kappa; 
Union Theological Seminary, 1860-1; tutor of Greek, U. C, 

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1862-5; prof. Greek, 1865-6; started and conducted a boys, 
school in New York City until his death in 1899; he was highly 
respected by the class ; was a man of much personal dignity and 
reserved in his manner; impressed members of the class as a 
just and conscientious man, in no wise repellent, but less ap- 
proachable than some others of the Faculty; it should be said 
that we were in the early years of college life when in his classes 
and Greek was not our native tongue; in the retrospect of half 
a century he is remembered with honor and affection. 

ELIPHALET NOTT, D.D., LL.D., born Ashford, Conn., 
June 25, 1773; died Schenectady, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1866; prin. 
Plainfield Academy, Conn.; grad. Brown University, 1795; 
Presbyterian minister at Cherry Valley and Albany, N. Y.; 
pres. U. C, 1804-66; author "Funeral Sermon on Death of 
Hamilton," "Counsels to Young Men" (1810), text-book on 
English composition, a syllabus of a course in chemistry, an 
analysis of hexameter, and numerous addresses and pamphlets; 
revised curricula and discipline of college, founded engineering 
school, courses in agriculture, introduced military drill, planned 
graduate school (never established); participated in state and 
national educational movements, advocate of temperance, anti- 
slavery, political and religious liberty ; promoted comprehensive 
plan for buildings and grounds of college, the work of Ramee, 
French landscape architect who aided in the plan for Wash- 
ington, D. C; a student of physics, invented first stove for 
burning anthracite coal, secured many patents for heating 
from which he made a fortune much of which he gave to the 
college; one of the most eminent men of his time, teacher, edu- 
cator, preacher, orator, inventor and citizen, and besides a 
man greatly beloved wherever known. The Class of 1868 never 
knew him personally, but recall him as a very old man, 91 to 93 
years old, often sitting by the front window of the president's 
house as students passed by. (Life of Eliphalet Nott, by C. 
Van Santvoord, ed. Tayler Lewis, 1876; sketch in National 
Cyclopedia American Biography, where he is termed "the 
greatest American college president.") 

JONATHAN PEARSON, A.B., A.M., born Chichester, N. H., 
Feb. 23, 1813; grad. U. C, 1835; Phi Beta Kappa; tutor U. C, 
1835; adj. prof, chemistry and natural philosophy, 1839-50; 
prof, of same, 1850-7; prof, natural history, 1857-73; prof, 
agriculture, botany, and librarian, 1873-87; treasurer, 1854-83; 
died Schenectady, N. Y., 1887. Author of "Early Records of 
the County of Albany," "The Genealogy of the First Settlers 
in Schenectady and Albany," and "A History of Schenectady 

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Patent in the Dutch and English Times" (Albany, 1883), a 
standard historical work. He translated the Records of the 
Dutch Church in Schenectady and the Dutch Records in the 
Clerk's office at Albany. It was said he knew every plant and 
flower in the region; he taught us botany (an elective); he was 
called "Pinky Pearson" because he had the habit of wearing a 
pink in his button hole; a handsome, pleasant-faced, and able 
gentleman and teacher. 

MAURICE PERKINS, A.M., M.D., born New London, 
Conn., March 14, 1836; three years at Yale, left on account of 
injury to eyes; voyage around world in a Yankee clipper in- 
creased his scientific curiosity and his philosophical tendency; 
member of New York stock exchange; studied chemistry under 
Victor Meyer at Heidelberg, Germany; ass't prof, chemistry, 
College Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y.; ass't at Lawrence 
Scientific School; prof, chemistry U. C. 1865-1901 and for some 
years also at Albany Medical College; student and teacher of 
U. S. history at U. C; Phi Beta Kappa; A.M. (Harvard, 1865); 
M.D. (Albany Medical College, 1871); married Annie Potts, 
New York, three children, Rose (wife of Prof. E. E. Hale, XL C), 
Miss Alice Perkins, and Dr. Roger Griswold Perkins; died U. C, 
June 18, 1901 . He was a young, handsome man, much interested 
in his work and laboratory students; was named "Perk," was 
companionable and formed pleasant friendships with men of 
the class; was author of "Manual of Qualitative Analysis." 

JAMES PICKETT, janitor, curator and general factotum, 
is one of the pleasantest memories cherished by the Class of 1868. 
He carried the heart of a boy under the wrinkles of advancing 
years, and his genial smile was the expression of a kindly feeling 
for everyone. He could laugh heartily at student pranks, even 
when they meant more work for Pickett. And back of it all, 
there was faithfulness, honesty, and a sterling character. No 
one ever knew him to do a mean or unkind or dishonorable act. 
He was always "on the job," and whatever the job was he did 
it well. Peace to his ashes, and rest to his soul! 

George Alexander, '66, writes: "Who cares for this wide 
domain? Why, Pickett; here he comes with hammer and 
screw-driver to repair the mischief wrought by some Sophomore 
raid. Professor of tinkering, long-suffering servant, friend of 
God ! No one who heard him pray in the old Methodist Church 
on Liberty Street (where he was a class leader) ever questioned 
the source of his infinite patience and perennial kindliness. 
Surely there must be doors to mend in the New Jerusalem or 
Pickett could not feel at home where he has an assured place." 

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CADY STALEY, born Minaville, N. Y., Dec. 12, 1840; U. C, 
A.B., 1865; C.E., 1866; Ph.D., 1874; LL.D., 1888; married 
Kate Holcomb, Waterford, N. Y., Dec. 23, 1869; one of the 
engineers in building Central Pacific R.R.; prof, civil engineer- 
ing, U. C, 1868-86; dean of faculty, U. C, 1876-86; pres. Case 
School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio, 1886-1902; ex-pres. 
and prof, economics, 1902- ; author — "The Separate System of 
Sewerage" (jointly) and of various other volumes, also editor; 
see National Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 11, p. 154; 
address: Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio. We 
called him "Staley" for he was a young and new man in the 
faculty and a student in our time; a useful career at Case 
School; an associate writes he was "most genial" " shone, as a 
gentleman, unfailing and gracious without affectation"; is a 
benefactor of U. C. in the disposition of his estate during his 
lifetime. 

BENJAMIN STANTON, grad. Bowdoin, 1848; Phi Beta 
Kappa; prin. New Hampton, N. H., Seminary, 1853-5; Brown 
H. S., Newburyport, Mass., 1855-7; teacher, Union Classical 
Institute, Schenectady, 1857-60; supt. same, 1860-3; prof. 
Latin, U. C, 1863-74; married July 18, 1848, Wolfeboro, N. H., 
Catherine Philbrook Coffin; died Schenectady, N. Y., July 18, 
1874. He was spoken of familiarly as "Stant"; a careful 
instructor, set special emphasis on the subjunctive mood; had 
charge of south section, South College, and was always on 
pleasant terms with the class. 

RANSOM B. WELCH, D.D., LL.D., born Greenfield, N. Y., 
1825; grad. U. C, 1846; Andover Theological Seminary, 1848- 
50; Auburn Theological Seminary 1850-2; D.D., Rutgers and 
New York University, 1868; LL.D., Maryville, 1872; engaged 
in pastoral work; prof, logic, rhetoric and Eng. lit., U. C, 
1866-76; prof, theology, Auburn Theological Seminary, 1876-90; 
married Lydia Guernsey Kennedy at Clifton Park, N. Y., June 
5, 1861; died Healing Springs, Va., June 29, 1890; survived 
by Mrs. Welch, now residing in Auburn, N. Y., who is remem- 
bered with pleasure by some members of our class at Union in 
'68. He was associate editor Presbyterian Review, 1861; 
Presbyterian and Reformed Review, 1890; author of "Faith and 
Modern Thought," "Outlines of Christian Theology." The 
Class of '68 was among his first college classes and his natural 
ability as a teacher in new lines was manifest from the first and 
grew with experience; a very well dressed and courteous gentle- 
man, earnest and skilful in developing his department and 
much respected by the class. 

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WILLIAM WELLS, A.M., Ph.D., LL.D., born New York 
City, 1820; early life in Philadelphia; did not attend college; 
in 1846 went to Europe for experience and language study; 
Berlin University, Ph.D., 1848; in Berlin during the revolution 
of 1848 was "innocent bystander" at a street fight, received a 
sabre scalp wound resulting in odd shaped one-sided baldness; 
European travel for three years; secretary of special American 
embassy at Frankfurt, 1848-9; later foreign correspondent of 
New York Herald, perhaps the first such to an American news- 
paper; prof, modern languages at Genesee College, Lima, N. Y., 
1851-65; prof, same, U. C, 1865-93; prof, emeritus, U. C, 
1903-7; died U. C, Dec. 14, 1907. Prominent in M. E. Church 
and frequent contributor to M. E. periodicals; editor foreign 
dept. Methodist Review for twenty years; associated with Dr. 
Lewis in preparation of Genesis (Lange Commentary) ; transla- 
tor Ecclesiastes (Lange Commentary); an interesting lecturer 
on travel and current history. He was a rapid and fluent 
speaker, an effective teacher and held in high esteem for his 
personal worth. He was called "Billy Wells," and by later 
classes "Uncle Billy." 

CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND, D.D., LL.D., 

born New York, Jan. 7, 1862; grad. Princeton, 1883; Princeton 
Theological Seminary, 1888; ordained to Presbyterian ministry, 
1888; pastor, Aurora, N. Y., 1888-94; Albany, N. Y., 1894- 
1909; pres. U. C, 1909- ; married Sarah Cooper Locke, Buffalo, 
N. Y., June 5, 1891; author, "The Four Winds" and various 
verses and addresses; honorary degrees, D.D., Hamilton College, 
1904; LL.D., Rutgers, 1909; New York University, 1910; 
Princeton, 1915; member of various clubs and official of educa- 
tional institutions and associations; prominent in college 
war activities in New York and New Jersey. The class of 1868 
tenders to President Richmond its appreciation and best wishes. 
He fills worthily a high office as the successor of a line of distin- 
guished men; a strong preacher, versatile in public address, an 
able administrator, a genial gentleman, and, a rare thing for a 
college president, he writes good poetry and plays the harp well. 



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PERSONAL RECORDS, CLASS 1868 

ROBERT ARMSTRONG, Jr. (Non-Graduate); entered 
from South Hartford, N. Y.; lawyer; studied law in office of 
Wait & Reynolds, Fort Edward, N. Y.; practised law in Fort 
Edward from 1870 about twenty years; member, New York 
Assembly, two terms, 1882-3; removed to New York City 
about 1890; never married; died, aged 56 at Bellevue Hospital, 
New York City, of heart disease, Nov. 27, 1901. 

^ JOHN BLUNT BACON (Graduate, C.E.) ; entered from Sing 
Sing, now Ossining, N. Y.; Psi U., Philomathean; at Decennial, 
1878, engaged in manufacture in Troy, N. Y., with James C. 
Bell, Jr., a relative and classmate, firm Bell & Bacon; married, 
two children, both died in childhood; for 13 years broken in 
health; retired from business and removed to Plainfield, N. J.; 
died Oct. 2, 1892; survived by his widow who resides at 2914 
Broadway, New York. 

THOMAS DOUGALL BARCLAY (Non-Graduate); entered 
from Princetown, N. Y.; born June 5, 1846; graduated Mon- 
mouth College, 111., in 1867; studied at Princeton and Yale 
Theological Seminaries; graduated Yale Seminary in 1870; 
Congregational minister at Hamilton, N. Y., Kent and Center- 
brook, Conn.; married Mary R. White in 1872; family of three 
sons and one daughter; died in Kent, Conn., July 20, 1898. 

JOHN B. BARRINGER (Graduate, A.B.) ; entered, Schenec- 
tady, N. Y.; chemist; after graduation studied in Europe; re- 
turned to Schenectady and died, after a lingering illness, of 
consumption, Feb. 9, 1872. 

JAMES C. BELL, Jr. (Graduate, C.E.) ; entered from Albany, 
N. Y.; Psi XL, Philomathean; after graduation until 1871 engi- 
neer on Paterson & Newark R. R. and in New York City; later 
of firm, Bell & Bacon, Mfrs., Troy, N. Y.; later accountant; 
married, one child; died at Albany in 1885. 

FREDERICK P. BELLAMY (Graduate, C.E.); entered, 
Chicopee Falls, Mass.; D.K.E., Philomathean; graduated at 
Columbia College Law School in 1870; since then has practised 
law continuously in all courts of New York State and the Federal 
Courts; in same office for forty-eight years; for forty-five years 
trustee of Packer Collegiate Institute, and for twenty years 
trustee of the College of the City of New York and for part of 
the time chairman of board of trustees ; has received several lit- 
erary degrees, among them, A.M., Union College, 1918; married 
in 1879, has one son, member of an important law firm in New 
York City, but now a lieutenant in the United States Army. 

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GEORGE N. BURT (Non-Graduate); entered, Oswego, 
N. Y.; Sigma Phi; graduated at Columbia College Law School 
in 1868; settled in Oswego, N. Y., where he has been for many 
years a successful lawyer; states his life "has been very unevent- 
ful." In the judgment of his friends his career has been useful 
and honorable; married; Presbyterian, member of local clubs; 
present address, Oswego, N. Y. 

CARLTON C. CALKINS (Graduate, C.E.); entered, Balls- 
ton Lake, N. Y.; Adelphic; after graduation went to Chicago 
to seek engineering work but failed, and was forced to begin 
as a farm laborer. This, however, proved most fortunate. 
After two or three years farming and teaching a country school, 
joined a colony, formed in Chicago, to settle on a part of the 
"Great American Desert," near foot of Long's Peak in the then 
territory of Colorado. A few years of hard work followed; 
irrigation was developed; the land has become among the best 
in the world. As farming advanced other business followed. 
Flour mills were built in Longmont and in Denver, small ele- 
vators erected in the state and in Utah; these started thirty- 
three years ago; has been a director from the beginning and 
secretary of the company most of the time. Two national 
banks were founded; has been a director of both from the start. 
Served two years in lower branch of legislature; nominated for 
senate but withdrew. The town, Longmont, thus founded, has 
now 6,000 population, one of the most active business towns of 
its size. After retirement from farming, appointed city engi- 
neer, built fifteen miles of sewer system in Longmont, and sewer 
work in other towns. His greatest pride, helping to turn part 
of the desert into a garden spot. Married in 1869 to Kate 
Boise in Illinois ; second marriage a few years ago to Lilla Katz 
in Colorado; has four sons and one daughter; Republican, 
Mason, Elk; present address, Longmont, Colo. 

THOMAS S. CALLENDER (Non-Graduate) ; entered from 
Albany, N. Y.; a veteran of the Civil War. For twenty-two 
years a food inspector of the New York Health Department. 
Has retired to Florida with a fair competency. At the 50th 
anniversary was unwell and unable to write at length; present 
address, St. Petersburg, Fla. 

HENRY KNOWLES CLAPP (Non-Graduate); entered 
from Lyons, N. Y.; graduate from Hobart College; teacher 
and superintendent of schools at Geneva, N. Y.; married soon 
after graduation; two sons; last seven years of life suffered 
from tuberculosis; died, Geneva, N. Y., in 1890; one son sur- 
vives, J. Reginald Clapp of Geneva, N. Y. 

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WILLIAM HEERMANS CLARK (Graduate, A.B.); en- 
tered, Lyons, N. Y.; Adelphic, Phi Beta Kappa; Junior prize 
speaker, Ingham Prize, Warner Prize, second prize essay; 
Master's oration in 1871; editor; born at Lyons, Wayne Co., 
N. Y., Aug. 12, 1848; son of William and Amelia R. (Heer- 
mans) C; Hamilton College, 1865-6; A.B., Union College, 
1868, A.M. 1871; married Helen Street, of Cortland, N. Y., 
Dec. 31, 1879, four children. Admitted to bar, 1869; prac- 
tised at Lyons, N. Y., 1869-76; purchased Cortland Stand- 
ard, 1876; president Cortland Standard Printing Co., Norwich 
Publishing Co., member New York Assembly 1875; member 
Republican State Committee, 1880-1; president local board of 
managers State Normal and Training School, Cortland; post- 
master of Cortland, 1911-15. President New York Press Asso- 
ciation, 1890, New York Associated Dailies, 1902. Club: 
Cortland Country. Presbyterian. Address: Cortland, N. Y. 

GEORGE BLAIR COCHRANE (Non-Graduate); entered 
from Detroit, Mich.; Adelphic, Theological; no information 
except that he died before the Decennial (1878). 

GERRIT S. COLLIER (Graduate, A.B.); entered, Cox- 
sackie, N. Y.; Psi U., Philomathean, Phi Beta Kappa; Nott 
Prize Scholar, Greek Oration; studied law, resided in New 
York City and Hudson, N. Y.; settled in Kinderhook, N. Y., 
where he has resided many years; a successful lawyer; married 
and has a family; present address, Kinderhook, N. Y. 

EDMUND HOSMER CROSS (Non-Graduate); entered 
from Schenectady, N. Y.; Theological; chemical student; 
worked in cotton mills, Chicopee Falls, Mass., for a time; rod- 
man on I. & G. R. R.; learned drug business and in 1872 started 
in business in Huntington, Mass., where he still continues busi- 
ness; slowly built up a business, also shipped medicines to 
Burmah; has a brick business block and prosperous trade; 
served 26 years on school committee, aided in organizing local 
fire and water system; married Miss Alice Rust in 1874; family 
of four boys and one girl; oldest son, graduate Worcester 
Polytechnic, electric engineer; second son, registered pharma- 
cist; third son, graduate Clark College, chemist and phar- 
macist; fourth son, graduate Syracuse University, first lieu- 
tenant in army, killed in airplane accident in Europe, May 2, 
1918; present address, Huntington, Mass. 

WILLIAM E. DAVIS (Non-Graduate); entered, Guilder- 
land, N. Y.; left Union College at end of freshman year; en- 

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tered Rutgers College, class of '68 and there graduated; graduate 
of New Brunswick Theological Seminary, 1871; ordained by 
Classis of Schenectady, N. Y., to ministry of the Reformed 
church; pastor at Manhasset, L. I., 1871-9; later at South 
Branch, N. J., four years; Lebanon, N. J., twenty-two years; 
Marlboro, N. J., six years; Knox, N. Y., four years. Two 
years ago had severe surgical operation, but recovered rapidly. 
Now serves as pulpit supply occasionally; in good health and 
74 years of age; married Lena L. Valentine in 1873 at Locust 
Point, L. L; Mary Crary in 1911 at Schenectady, N. Y.; five 
children, one son, four daughters; has several sermons pub- 
lished; present address, Closter, N. J. 

EDWARD M. DE SAUGUE (Non-Graduate); entered from 
Philadelphia, Pa. ; a person of this name appears as bookkeeper 
in Philadelphia directory of 1870 and 1874; in 1876 and later 
name De Saugue disappears from Philadelphia directory; no 
further information obtained. 

DAVID MONTGOMERY DUNNING (Graduate, C.E.); 
entered, Auburn, N. Y.; Psi U., Philomathean; born, Dec. 30, 
1844, Auburn, N. Y., entered Union College as junior in 1866; 
city engineer at Auburn before going to college; after gradua- 
tion followed civil engineering, railroad construction and other 
work; in 1868 engineer of Auburn Gas Light Co., later until 
1902 treasurer and general manager; trustee Auburn Savings 
Bank in 1885, vice-president in 1887, president from 1906 to 
date (1918); interested in agriculture and horticulture; retains 
home farm, in family since 1818, 200 acres with extensive dairy; 
has also other farms in vicinity; at times had agricultural inter- 
ests in Texas and Indiana, the latter involving drainage im- 
provements ; took many horticultural prizes at New York State 
and American Institute fairs, and gold medals for prizes on fruit 
at World's fairs at Chicago, St. Louis, and Buffalo Pan-Ameri- 
can; won several years Grand Challenge Cup for roses from 
the Syracuse Rose Society; won in 1910 prize cup for best plan 
for farm drainage from New York State Drainage Association of 
which (organized in 1909) he has been a member; lieutenant 
and later captain in New York State National Guard, also 
inspector of rifle practice; his team won rifle prize, grand chal- 
lenge New York State prize in 1877; trustee Central Presby- 
terian Church, president Auburn City Hospital, charter mem- 
ber Auburn City Club and Owasco Country Club; was four 
years member of U. C. Graduate Council; secretary of Class of 
1868 for many years; has written papers on rose culture and 

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farm drainage, contributed to Engineering Magazine and other 
technical journals and to Bailey's "Cyclopedia of Horticulture" 
and other horticultural publications; married, 1871; has five 
daughters, two sons and nine grandchildren; one son, David M., 
Jr., U. C. 1902, a captain 303d Regiment Engineers, U.S.A., 
now in France; other son, Charles H., Yale-Sheffield, 1909, for 
some years president Big Pine Mining Co., Prescott, Ariz., now 
in U.S. Naval Reserve; present address, Auburn, N. Y. 

WILLIAM BUDDINGTON DURYEE (Non-Graduate); 
entered from Schenectady, N. Y.; specialized in chemistry; 
born in 1847; son of Rev. I. G. Duryee and Mrs. Lydia Bud- 
dington Duryee; after graduation went to Freehold, N. J., 
assisted his uncle in drug business, which he carried on after the 
latter 's death; retired from business about three years ago; 
married Miss Chrissie Combs in Hightstown; she survives her 
husband, as does Dr. Edward C. Duryee, son; died at Freehold, 
N. J., November 15, 1916, at the age of 69. 

LOUIS PREVOST EVANS (Graduate, C.E.); entered from 
Potts town, Pa. ; after graduation employed first at bridge build- 
ing, Pottstown, Pa.; later, until 1872, engineer of Lehigh Coal 
& Navigation Co., Mauch Chunk, Pa.; then in Europe for 
three and a half years, two spent at Polytechnic, Zurich, Switz- 
erland, graduated there as C.E.; home again, employed in 
bridge building at Buffalo, N. Y., until 1877 when he returned 
to Pottstown, Pa.; last known residence, Philadelphia, Pa.; 
died in 1896. 

CHARLES FAILING (Non-Graduate); entered from Pala- 
tine Bridge, N. Y.; now a farmer there. 

EDWARD PAYSON FANCHER (Graduate, A.B.); en- 
tered from McGrawville, N. Y.; Adelphic, Theological, Phi 
Beta Kappa; signed a competitive essay with nom de plume 
"Bub," and hence called by college friends "Bub Fancher"; 
taught in high school, Bath, N. Y., later at Windsor Academy 
where his work was highly commended; Alice Freeman (Mrs. 
Alice Freeman Palmer), a pupil at Windsor, said she owed much 
to his counsel and inspiration; was for a time a legislative ste- 
nographer, later librarian, New York Senate; died at McGraw- 
ville, N. Y., in 1890, aged 45 years. 

JOSEPH FLETCHER (Non-Graduate); entered from New 
York City; Adelphic; born at Saratoga Springs; son of Rev. 
Joshua Fletcher, D.D.; druggist in Watervliet, owning two 
drug stores; about 1900 went to Jefferson, N. Y.; married Nellie 
Grace Clark of Fairhaven, Mass., in 1883; died in Jefferson, 
aged 68, in November, 1910; survived by his widow and one 
sister, Mary L. Waldo. 

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ROBERT FORSYTH (Non-Graduate); entered from North 
Argyle, N. Y.; graduate of Williams College; teacher in acad- 
emy, Green Farms, Conn., eight years; Thomaston, Conn., 
high school, six years; boys school, Elizabeth, N. J., four years; 
Lebanon, N. H., high school, sixteen years; has resided in Clare- 
mont, N. H., since 1904; married, has family; present address, 
Claremont, N. H. 

PATRICK HENRY GUNCKEL (Non-Graduate); entered 
from Germantown, Ohio; Junior prize speaker, D. K. E., Phil- 
omathean; patent lawyer; died in Minneapolis, Minn., where 
he had been established for more than a quarter of a century, 
Sept. 7, 1910; survived by his wife and two daughters. 

HENRY A. HARMON (Graduate, A.B.); entered from 
Glenville, N. Y.; Alpha Delta Phi, Adelphic, Phi Beta Kappa; 
born at Charlton, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1846; son of Charles S. and 
Jane Anderson Harmon; moved to Detroit; studied law in the 
office of Newberry, Pond & Brown; admitted to the bar, April, 
1870; member of law firm of Meddaugh, Driggs & Harmon; 
Democrat; Masonic Order; member of University and Detroit 
Clubs of Detroit; School Inspector and Library Commissioner 
for several years; not married; died in Detroit, Mich., March 
3, 1912. 

EUGENE K. HERRICK (Graduate, A.B.) ; entered, Duanes- 
burg, N. Y.; Alpha Delta Phi, Adelphic, Theological; settled 
in Chicago in 1870; superintendent of City Railway Company 
for a time; in 1872 began live stock commission business in 
which he continued until his death; was highly esteemed for 
his genial character and business integrity; prominent in local 
Presbyterian Church; died very suddenly of heart collapse, 
aged 69 years, at his home in Chicago on March 3, 1913; sur- 
vived by his widow, Harriet N. Herrick, and two sons, Louis E. 
and Harry E. Herrick, both business men of Chicago, the former 
was his father's partner in business, the latter engaged in banking. 

WILLIAM HIGINBOTHAM (Non-Graduate); entered 
from Leavenworth, Kan.; was for some years a prominent 
lawyer at Clay Center, Kan., and somewhat interested in bank- 
ing business; died some years ago (prior to 1900). 

CHARLES WARNER HOWE (Non-Graduate); entered 
from Scotia, N. Y.; Chi Psi, Philomathean; merchant; last 
known residence, Chicago, 111.; died in 1879. 

WINFIELD SCOTT HUNTER (Graduate, A.B.); entered, 
Schenectady, N. Y. ; Chi Psi; contractor; born in Schenectady, 

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March 2, 1848; son of Arthur W. and Mary A. Foster Hunter; 
Episcopalian; Democrat; alderman; president, Board of Edu- 
cation; member Mohawk Club and St. George's Lodge; mar- 
ried Mary J. Clark in Schenectady, Feb. 15, 1870; after gradua- 
tion entered the employ of Roy & Co., shawl manufacturers, 
later becoming general manager; one of organizers of the 
Schenectady Contracting Company, of which he was secretary 
and manager for twenty years prior to his death; died at the 
Mayo Brothers' Hospital in Rochester, Minn., after a critical 
operation, on April 1, 1912, in the sixty-fifth year of his age; 
survived by his widow; a daughter, Miss Grace Hunter; a son, 
Arthur W. Hunter, U. C. '92; and a sister, Miss Alice Hunter; 
entertained the 40th year reunion Class of '68 in 1908 in 
Schenectady. 

GREENVILLE M. INGALSBE (Left college, received de- 
grees later); entered, South Hartford, N. Y.; Adelphic; principal 
of Argyle Academy three years until 1870; graduated at Harvard 
Law School in 1872; in 1874 admitted to New York State bar; 
in 1875 opened a law office in Hudson Falls, N. Y., where the 
remainder of his life was passed; prominent for many years 
in Washington County agricultural society; held various local 
and county offices; associated with many commercial and 
financial interests of his locality; president of New York His- 
torical Association in 1913-14; member of American Academy 
of Social and Political Science and other bodies, scientific, legal, 
political ; member of New York State, and American Bar Asso- 
ciations; from his Alma Mater he held the degrees of A.B. 
(1868), A.M. (1870), and L.H.D. (1917); died aged 72 years at 
Hudson Falls, N. Y., on April 21, 1918; married Miss Franc E. 
Groesbeck of Hudson Falls, Sept. 20, 1876, who died in 1916; 
an only son Grenville H. Ingalsbe born in 1878, died in 1910. 
Mr. Ingalsbe was commonly known in his region as Judge 
Ingalsbe. At his death many tributes were paid to his high 
character and usefulness. The Herald (Hudson Falls) gave 
much space in editorial and obituary, and printed the funeral 
address by Hon. Milton Reed of Fall River, a classmate in the 
law school. It described Mr. Ingalsbe as the "Most prominent 
citizen of Hudson Falls." A collection of 913 volumes from his 
library has been donated to the college library. 

EDWARD C. JORDAN (Graduate, C.E.); entered, West- 
brook (now Portland) Me.; Kappa Alpha; in spring of 1868 
appointed assistant engineer on Central Pacific R.R. then loca- 
ting and building east to meet the Union Pacific building west 
from Omaha; went to California via Isthmus of Panama; as- 

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signed to engineering corps in Salt Lake Valley; finally in charge 
of about 80 miles including famous Promontory where the rails 
meet; later sent to Oakland, Cal., to work on terminal railroad 
facilities; in 1870 on engineering corps of Northern Pacific then 
locating from Lake Superior to Puget Sound, had charge of 
location and construction of about 100 miles of road; was on 
locating expeditions from Missouri River to Yellowstone Valley 
under military escort to protect from Sitting Bull's bands, a 
hazardous but interesting time; returned to Portland in 1873 
and married; opened an office as civil engineer; has been suc- 
cessful in his profession; aided in founding state board of health, 
state commission on conserving water powers; in 1916 chair- 
man state directors of industrial preparedness; greatly inter- 
ested in the country's success in present war, notes with pleasure 
the loyalty of Union men; present address, Portland, Me. 

WILLIAM BAKER KNIGHT (Non-Graduate); entered 
from Yonkers, N. Y. ; Chi Psi; civil engineer; no further infor- 
mation obtained. Name does not appear in Yonkers directory 
of 1866 and later. 

JAMES FOSTER KNOWLES (Graduate, A.B.); entered 
from Greenville, N. Y.; was member 44th N. Y. Volunteers; 
Philomathean, Theological; born Riverhead, N. Y., Aug. 31, 
1837; Union Theological Seminary, 1868-70; Presbyterian min- 
ister; supply, Grand Lodge, Mich., 1870-1; South Bend, Ind., 
1871-3; East Nassau, N. Y., 1873-4; Corvallis, Ore., 1875-6; 
East Nassau, N. Y., 1876-8; Boise City, Ida., 1878-80; Ogden, 
Utah, 1880-4; Warrensburgh, N. Y., 1884-8; Rising Sun, Ind., 
1888-92; Shawneetown, 111., 1893-6; Carmel, 111., 1897; Equality 
and Friendsville, 111., 1898-1902; Metropolis, 111., 1902-5; pastor, 
Rush City, Minn., 1905-7; Pultney, N. Y., 1907-9; died, 
Pultney, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1909. 

TAYLER LEWIS, Jr. (Non-Graduate) ; entered from Sche- 
nectady; Chi Psi; teacher; died in 1879. 

ARTHUR HOWARD McFARLAND (Graduate, A.B.); 
entered from Delhi, N. Y.; Alpha Delta Phi, Adelphic; second 
Blatchford prize; teacher at Islip, L. I.; later entered medical 
profession; died in 1907. 

JOHN BRADFORD McINTYRE (Graduate, A.B.); en- 
tered, Albany, N. Y.; Kappa Alpha, Philomathean; after 
graduation with '68, took an engineering course with Class of 
1870; business life has been engineering or railroad work in 
New York, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, and for past 
eight years at Birmingham, Ala.; began with Adirondack R.R. 

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in 1870, up to 1887 was three years on public works in District 
of Columbia, five years at Syracuse in railroad construction 
with New York Central and West Shore R.R. ; five years with 
D. & H. R.R. and three years on public works, New York City; 
from 1887-99 was chief engineer of New York Central coal road 
in Central, Pa., from 1899-1901 construction engineer, New 
York Central at New York City, 1901-09 with subsidiary rail- 
roads of United States Steel Corporation, as chief and construc- 
tion engineer, at Pittsburgh, Pa., and from 1909 to date (1918) 
chief engineer of Birmingham Southern R. R.; first plans for 
eliminating grade crossings at "Dorp" were formulated under 
his direction; also grade crossings at Albany and reconstruction 
of passenger bridge; married in 1876 to Miss Bessie Teall of 
Syracuse; has had three sons and one daughter; oldest son 
died in New York City in 1911 ; was a Princeton graduate and a 
journalist, connected with New York World at time of his death; 
the second is in war construction work in Alabama; the youngest 
is in the army; present address, Birmingham, Ala. 

RICHARD McKEE (Non-Graduate); entered from Kort- 
right, N. Y.; Adelphic, Theological; died in 1868. 

ANDREW J. McNAUGHT (Graduate, A.B.) ; entered, Cabin 
Hill, N. Y.; Adelphic; after leaving college, taught for three 
years, but was compelled to relinquish the teaching profession 
on account of health; from 1872-4 private secretary to Senator 
Winslow at Albany and occupied an official position with the 
legislature. In 1875 engaged in the mercantile business at 
Watertown, N. Y.; not being able to stand the confinement, 
disposed of his business and returned to the homestead farm at 
Cabin Hill, Delaware County, N. Y., where he continued to 
reside and operate a farm until 1914, since which time he has 
resided with his son at Stamford, N. Y.; married Feb. 1, 1871, 
to Martha J. Pease, daughter of Dr. Harmon J. Pease of 
Schenectady; wife died in March, 1901; has one son, Andrew J. 
McNaught, Jr., an attorney practising at Stamford, N. Y.; 
present address, Stamford, N. Y. 

ELIAS MEAD (Non-Graduate); entered from Glenville, 
N. Y.; received A.B. from Rutgers in 1868; graduated from 
New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1870; licensed by 
Classis of Schenectady, 1870; settled at Coeymans, N. Y., 1870 
-3; Keyport, N. J., 1873-90; now living at 594 River Drive, 
Passaic, N. J. 

HUMPHREY H. C. MILLER (Non-Graduate); entered 
from Mt. Carroll, 111.; Psi U.; A.B. from University of Michi- 

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gan in 1868; A.M., 1871; was mayor, Evanston, 111., three 
terms; president, board of education, twenty years; trustee, 
Northwestern University; last residence, Evanston,' 111.; died 
in November, 1910. 

JOHN T. MOTT (Graduate, A.B); entered, Oswego, N. Y.; 
Sigma Phi, Adelphic; on leaving college entered First National 
Bank, Oswego, N. Y., of which his father was then president; 
later vice-president, since 1897 president; president and treas- 
urer of Oswego Water Works Company, treasurer Oswego Gas 
Light Company, vice-president Niagara Falls & Clifton Sus- 
pension Bridge Company, and director of several concerns; 
member of Republican State Committee for thirteen years,' 
chairman Oswego District Committee for many years; trustee 
of state hospital at Syracuse; member of board of managers for 
New York State for Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo and 
the Charleston Exposition; member of New York National 
Guard for some years, retiring in 1883 as Colonel and Aid-de- 
Camp of Gov. A. B. Cornell; has been commodore of Oswego 
Yacht Club and president of the Lake Yacht Racing Associa- 
tion; chairman of Oswego County Home Defence Committee 
and still a member of same; married, Oct. 30, 1873; one son, 
Luther W. Mott, now in fourth term as member of Congress 
from New York State; present address, Oswego, N. Y. 

HARRISON WHEELER NANNY (Graduate, A.B.); en- 
tered from Goshen, N. Y.; Adelphic; born Edenville, N. Y., 
1845; son of Capt. A. H. Nanny; admitted to bar, 1873; lawyer 
and publicist; settled in Goshen, N. Y., president of Goshen in 
1885 and for five years after; health somewhat broken for many 
years. Headley's Bench and Bar of Orange Countv: "Only his 
very poor health prevented his attaining prominence at the 
bar." A good (mostly office) lawyer; contributor to papers 
and magazines on various topics; married Aurelia W. Brinson 
in 1875 who died fifteen years later without issue; died, Goshen, 
N. Y., March 19, 1903. 

JOHN G. NOBLE (Graduate, A.B.); entered, Elizabeth- 
town, N. Y.; Delta Phi, Philomathean; A.M., 1872; M.D. 
1877 (Columbia Medical School); studied also at Polytechnic, 
Brunswick, Germany; physician and surgeon in New York 
City, since 1877; member of various medical societies; retired 
from practice; for past twenty years much interested in horol- 
ogy, has himself built many large clocks of grandfather tvpe, 
mostly chiming; married Gertrude Bigelow Pollard, Boston, 
Mass.; two children, Ransom Noble, A.B., LL.B. (Columbia), 
and Catherine Noble, A.B. (Barnard), A.M. (Columbia). Pres- 
ent address, 304 West 77th St., New York City. 

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FREDERICK EDWARD NORRIS (Non-graduate); en- 
tered from Ottawa, 111.; Adelphic; developed one of the first 
orange groves in Florida prior to 1898; removed later to Bata- 
via, N. Y., engaged in real estate improvement; died at Batavia, 
N. Y., in 1913. 

WILLIAM L. PEARSON (Graduate, A.B.); entered, Sche- 
nectady, N. Y.; Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa; physician at 
Schenectady, N. Y.; received degree D.H. (Doctor of Human- 
ity), at Commencement of 1918 in recognition of his valued 
professional services and humane character. Present address, 
714 Union St., Schenectady, N. Y. 

DANIEL PRATT, Jr. (Graduate, A.B.); entered, Syracuse, 
N. Y.; Philomathean; born in Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1848; son 
of Daniel Pratt and Sarah Maria Rowe Pratt; lawyer, admitted 
to New York Supreme Court about 1870 or '71; Presbyterian; 
Democrat; member Century Club; married Helen Mary Clarke, 
Feb. 12, 1879, at Syracuse, N. Y.; died in 1912. 

JAMES DUNCAN REYNOLDS (Non-Graduate); entered 
from Chicago, 111.; Sigma Phi; member of the class for a few 
months, left college on account of illness and did not return; 
graduate Rensselaer Polytechnic; civil engineer; now living at 
679 South Pasadena Ave., Pasadena, Cal. 

JAMES H. ROBINSON (Graduate, A.B.) ; entered, Fairville, 
N. Y.; Adelphic, Phi Beta Kappa; president of the Class since 
graduation; principal of Elizabethtown, N. Y., Union School 
one year; student one year at Drew Theological Seminary; in 
Methodist Episcopal Church ministry since 1870 in Troy Con- 
ference. He says: "For 43 years a Methodist Itinerant; life 
uneventful, the quiet life of a pastor." Married in May, 1872, 
Miss Delia E. Reasoner, Ballston Spa, N. Y.; have four chil- 
dren, two sons and two daughters; the first died in infancy, the 
rest still living; Dora May is graduate of Syracuse University, 
A.M. of Columbia University, now teacher in North Carolina 
State N. & I. College at Greensboro; sons spent two years at 
Union College, later one graduated at University of Vermont 
and the other at Brown University and Drew Theological Semi- 
nary, now pastor of M. E. Church South, at Adel, Ga.; other 
son in business at Quincy, Mass.; Mrs. Robinson died in 1910; 
in 1913 retired from active ministry and made his home in 
Greensboro; visited Gettysburg battlefield, where he served, 
on its 50th anniversary, and had part in dedication at Anderson- 
ville, Ga., of a monument erected by New York State in memory 
of her soldiers who died there; presided at Alumni Dinner, 
1918; present address, Greensboro, N. C. 

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WARREN GILMAN SANBORN (Graduate, C.E.); en- 
tered from Newmarket, N. H.; was private in Company 
27th Maine Volunteers; won Medal of Honor in 1863; last 
known residence, Berkeley, Cal.; died May 5, 1907. 

WALTER SCOTT (Graduate, A.B.); entered from Sing- 
Sing (now Ossining), N. Y.; member of Psi U., Philomathean, 
Theological, Phi Beta Kappa; non-graduate Union Theological 
Seminary, 1873; teacher in private schools; married 1st, Sarah 
R. Pugsley (died 1887) at Ossining, N. Y., in 1875; 2d, Kath- 
erine E. Campbell at Worcester, N. Y., in 1888. Ordained 
Baptist ministry, 1876; pastor South New Berlin, N. Y., 1876- 
80; New York City, 1880-9; principal Connecticut Literary 
Institution, 1889-96; secretary Baptist Congress, 1886-7; 
trustee, American Baptist Education Society; editor of Church 
and Home, N. Y., for some years, of the People, Boston, from 
1897-1911; secretary New England Education League from 
1897-1911; secretary International Education Conference; 
author pamphlets on Physical Education, Library Post, bio- 
graphical sketches and addresses on education, etc.; published 
Primer of Democracy, volume on World Education; of late 
years interested in state and federal educational legislation; 
also proposed international educational law to remove illiteracy, 
teach application of science and mechanics to world's work, 
and international ethics; has eight children and eight grand- 
children; one son in U. S. Army, another in training in S. N. 
T. C. at Princeton; present address, Pittsfield, N. H. 

JOHN E. SHARPE (Graduate, A.B.) ; entered, North Green- 
bush, N. Y.; Psi IT., Philomathean, Phi Beta Kappa; engaged 
in business and teaching; resided in New York City, and in the 
following places in New York State: Wyantskill, Amenia, 
Troy, Yonkers, and Ossining; married Charlotte B. Snyder, 
Troy, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1879; Presbyterian, Republican, Mason; 
health infirm for many years, consequently led a retired life; 
died, Ossining, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1915. 

THEODORE ROBERT SHEAR (Graduate, A.B.); entered 
from Albany, N. Y.; Alpha Delta Phi, Philomathean; graduate 
Albany Law School; lawyer in New York City in all branches 
except criminal law; married, Oct. 21, 1874, a daughter of 
G. P. Quackenbos, LL.D., of New York City; one son; died in 
February, 1909. 

LAURENS TILLOU SHULER (Non-Graduate); entered 
from Schenectady, N. Y.; member Delta Upsilon; born, Am- 
sterdam, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1849; graduated from Union Theologi- 

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cal Seminary in 1873; Presbyterian pastor, Wantage, N. J., 
1873-5; travel in Europe and East, 1876; supply, West Town, 
N. Y., 1876-81; pastor, Paterson, N. J., 1881-5; institution, 
Newark, N. J., 1885-95; died, Newark, N. J., Jan. 6, 1895. 

WILLIAM HENRY SNYDER (Graduate, A.B.); entered, 
Bethlehem, Pa.; Adelphic, Theological; graduated from Union 
Theological Seminary in 1871; had charge of Bethany Mission 
in Chicago; in 1873 went to Kansas and was ordained minister 
by the Presbytery of Topeka; first pastorate in Abilene, Kan.; 
there ten years, organizing five churches and building two, one 
of brick and one of stone, and a manse; subsequent pastorates 
at Georgetown, Colo.; Canon City, Colo.; Creston, la.; and 
Missouri Valley, la.; married Julia Clara Bidwell, Oct. 16, 
1872; Republican; traveled extensively; in last years had a 
fruit farm at South Haven, Mich., where he died Nov. 13, 1915. 

JAMES HENRY SOUTHWORTH (Non-Graduate); en- 
tered from Rome, N. Y.; Delta Phi; lawyer in New York City; 
member of Assembly; died at New York City in 1900. 

DAVID SPRAKER, Jr. (Graduate, A.B.); entered, Cana- 
joharie, N. Y.; born at Canajoharie, N. Y., April 12, 1848; son 
of David and Harriet Frances Rowan Spraker; Philomathean, 
Phi Beta Kappa; Latin Salutatory; LL.B. from Albany Law 
School in 1869; A.M., Union College, 1871; married Nov. 13, 
1878, at Herkimer, N. Y., to Josephine A. Batchelder; died at 
his home in Rochester, N. Y., in August, 1917; survived by his 
widow and two sons, James R. and Charles B. Spraker. 

HENRY STREETER (Non-Graduate); entered from Mon- 
trose, Pa., born at Montrose, Nov. 1, 1846; son of the Hon. 
Farris B. and Sarah B. Streeter; Delta Phi, Philomathean; was 
admitted to practice law in Bradford County, in 1872; entered 
into partnership with William A. Peck; not married; director 
in First National Bank, Towanda, Pa., for twenty years; early 
in 1909 elected director and president of the Citizens National 
Bank; trustee in 1895 and president of Board of Trustees in 
1903 of the Robert Packer Hospital, Towanda; died Aug. 9, 
1909. 

LATHAM C. STRONG (Graduate, A.B.); entered from 
Troy, N. Y.; D. K. E., Philomathean, Phi Beta Kappa; First 
Blatchford prize and First Clark prize; in 1869 studied at Heidel- 
berg University, Germany; publicist, journalist and literary 
man; associate editor of Troy Daily Whig for three years; sec- 
retary and later president of Y. M. C. A.; in 1874 aid-de-camp 
on Governor Tilden's staff; in 1878 resided in Tarrytown, 
N. Y., engaged in real estate and literary work; contributor in 

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prose and verse to Troy newspapers and other papers and mag- 
azines; has published three volumes of poetry, "Castle Win- 
dows," "Poke o' Moonshine," "Midsummer Dreams" in 1876, 
1878, and later; married in 1872, had two sons; died at Tarry- 
town, N. Y., in 1879. 

THOMAS JEFFERSON SUTHERLAND (Non-Graduate); 
entered from Wallingford, Vt.; a successful lawyer in Chicago, 
111.; present address, 529 Bryant Ave., Chicago, 111. 

GEORGE O. TAYLOR (Graduate, C.E.); entered, Purcel- 
ville, Va.; after graduation engaged in engineering on Kent 
County R.R., Syracuse and Chenango Valley R.R. and Port- 
land & Ogdensburg, R.R.; was engaged on P. & O. R.R. at 
Swanton, Vt., at the time of his death on April 5, 1872. Samuel 
H. Wallis of '68 wrote to decennial meeting as follows: "He 
had charge of the division of railroad next to me on the Portland 
& Ogdensburg R.R., and learning of his being unwell I went to 
see him. This was April 5, 1872; just after I left his room to 
return to my place, ten miles distant, and was a mile on my 
way, a messenger followed me with the sad news that Taylor 
was dead; still further it fell to my lot to convey the remains 
to his home in Virginia; it was a sad but necessary duty, and 
I could engage in it as though it were for a brother, for I cer- 
tainly loved him as such." 

SAMUEL HOLLINGSWORTH WALLIS (Graduate, C.E.); 
entered from Muncy, Pa.; Adelphic, Theological; after gradua- 
tion making village maps for insurance use at Muncy, Pa.; in 
Iowa in 1871 ; a year on Vermont division of Portland & Ogdens- 
burg R.R.; in 1872 at Binghamton, N. Y., as draftsman, there 
two vears; returned to Muncy, Pa., in 1876; died at Muncy, 
Pa., in 1887. 

JOHN B. Y. WARNER (Graduate, A.B.); entered, Roches- 
ter, N. Y.; Sigma Phi, Philomathean, Phi Beta Kappa; went 
to Georgia after graduation and spent some years on a cotton 
plantation; in 1888 returned to Rochester, N. Y., pursued real 
estate business for several years and then engaged in farming 
in Wheatland, his home in recent years; was much interested 
in the right treatment of animals and for twenty-five years 
president of the Rochester Humane Society; died aged 72, at 
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Eugene Brown of Scottsville, 
N. Y., on April 8, 1918, from an apoplectic stroke; survived by 
his wife, a son, Richard Warner of New York City, and three 
daughters, Mrs. W. M. Angle and Mrs. W. H. Gorsline of Roch- 
ester, and Mrs. Eugene Brown of Scottsville, N. Y. The Roches- 
ter, N. Y., papers at the time of his death contain tributes to 
his worth and public usefulness. 

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HARRISON EDWIN WEBSTER (Graduate, A.B.); en- 
tered from Clayville, N. Y.; born at Angelica, N. Y., Sept. 8, 
1841; entered Sophomore class in 1859, but left when Civil 
War broke out and enlisted; returned in Sept., 1866, and grad- 
uated in 1868; Zeta Psi, Adelphic, Phi Beta Kappa; studied 
medicine at University Medical College of New York City; 
professor of natural history, Union College, 1873-83; professor 
of geology and natural history, Rochester University, 1883-8; 




PRESIDENT H. E. WEBSTER, 1888-94 



president of Union College, 1888-94; received degree of M.D. 
(honorary) from Albany Medical College and LL.D. from 
Rochester University in 1889; died at Rochester, N. Y., June 
16, 1906. (Sketch in National Cyclopedia of American 
Biography.) 

GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE (Non-Graduate); entered, 
Schenectady, N. Y.; before entering college served over two 
years, June, 1863, to Aug., 1865, in U. S. Army and Navy, in 

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National Guard and cavalry, and as assistant engineer in navy; 
after a time in engineering course at college he began his career 
as engineer, inventor and manufacturer; invented (1865) device 
for replacing derailed cars; patented (1868) air brake; applied 
pneumatic devices to switching and signaling, utilizing electric- 
ity; became interested in electric machinery and various enter- 
prises therewith connected; built first ten great dynamos for 
Niagara, dynamos for elevated and subway roads in New York 
and for Metropolitan Railway, London; devised system for 
control of natural gas and piping it for long distances, thereby 
utilizing it as fuel in homes, mills and factories, thus aiding 
also in making Pittsburg a center for manufacture of iron, steel 
and glass; did much to develop gas engines and electric driving 
applied to steam turbines; founded great works at Pittsburg 
and other places in United States; Hamilton, Canada; Man- 
chester and London, England; Havre, France; Hanover, Ger- 
many; Vienna, Austria; Vado, Italy; St. Petersburg, Russia; 
president of thirty corporations, aggregate capital, $120,000,000, 
employing about 50,000 workmen; had decorations and honors in 
France, Italy, Belgium, Germany and the United States; honor- 
ary member of several leading scientific associations; degree 
(Ph.D.) Union College (1890) ; married (1867) Marguerite Erskine 
Walker; one son, George Westinghouse, Jr.; died in March, 
1914, in New York City after an illness of five months; survived 
by his widow, and son; his son married in England in 1909 
Lady Evelyn Violet Brocklebank; has four children and resides 
in southern California. Francis E. Leupp, his biographer, says 
he "was probably the most remarkable industrial leader and 
prophet this country has ever produced."* 

* "George Westinghouse, His Life and Achievements," by Francis E. Leupp 
(Little, Brown & Co., Boston, Mass., 1918), p. 299. 




Union College, 1918 



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DECENNIAL REUNION OF 1868 

At the decennial meeting, June 25, 1878, the following mem- 
bers of the Class were present: Messrs. J. B. Bacon, J. C. Bell, 
W. H. Clark, G. M. Ingalsbe, E. C. Jordan, W. L. Pearson, 
J. H. Robinson, W. Scott, J. E. Sharpe, T. R. Shear, D. 
Spraker, Jr. 

Letters were read from ex-president Hickok, Messrs. Herrick, 
Strong, Evans, Sutherland, and telegrams from J. T. Mott of 
Oswego, and J. B. Mclntyre, Port Henry, N. Y. 

A poem, received from L. C. Strong, was read and ordered to 
be printed. 

The session began at 12 m., adjourned for Alumni collation, 
reconvened at 3.15 p. m. Some time was spent in pleasant, 
reminiscent ial conversation, and short speeches by various mem- 
bers. A class supper took place at Givens' Hotel at 6 p. m. 

Adjourned to meet at next decennial, or at call of officers of 
the class. 

J. H. Robinson 

W. Scott President 

Secretary 

LETTER OF DR. L. P. HICKOK 

Amherst, June 7, '78 
Walter Scott, Secretary of Class '68: 

Dear Sir: Yours of the 18th instant has been gratefully 
received and I thank you for personal kind expressions and 
assurance of affectionate class remembrance. I readily recall 
my pleasant connection with your class, and personal happy 
association with its particular members; especially the coidial 
participation in your Commencement exercises. I also joy- 
fully note the frequent opportunities I have of hearing about 
the success and rising influence and usefulness of yours and 
other classes' particular members. This is a source of highest 
gratification to me, while I grieve in learning the loss annually 
of some of my pupils taken away from all earthly relations. 
My own health has mainly been good, and my present condition 
admits of daily study and much enjoyment from pleasant and 
friendly social relations. My years approach the extreme 
limit of human life, and yet the last have not been the least 
pleasant and satisfactory. I am awaiting their close with 
calm trust and without painful anxiety. My college class- 
mates have mostly gone before, and later college associates 

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grow few and thin by frequent successive departures. The 
better home, I trust, receives them. 

Most cordially greet for me such of your class as may attend 
their reunion, and remember me affectionately, as opportunity 
offers, to any not present. I hope you, and Union graduates 
generally attending, may have a happy Commencement. 

Affectionately, 

L. P. HlCKOK 

POEM OF LATHAM C. STRONG 

The gray-beard men whose lifted eyes 
Behold the front of Paradise, 
Look scarcely with a rapter gaze 
Along the golden upward ways 
Than we, who, turning in our stride, 
Glance backward over weary roads 
To shaded streams that twinkling glide 
Beneath our lotus-crowned abodes, 
Beneath the trees we loved so well, 
The college grove, the shady dell, 
The converge of the gravel walks 
Where famous classmen held their talks, 
The conclave hall where stern debate 
Laid down the rules for church and state, 
The college bell that was not rung 
Because it could not hold its tongue, 
The chapel old with benches brown, 
(Stanton and Noble looking down) 
And where the Doctor stood at prayer 
The Bible-cushion old with wear, 
The Class-room by the chapel's side 
That opened on the campus wide, 
Where oft with hesitating mind 
We entered and left hope behind, 
The straggling file that moved along 
A careless thread of choral song, 
Untimely broken at the door 
As each one stepped the threshold o'er, 
The moonlit nights when white-robed maids 
Peeped through the blinds at serenades, 
When dainty fingers broke the spell 
With soft applause — when roses fell 
Fresh as our day-dreams through the glow, 
And parting words came sweet and low — 

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Because these memories are dear 
Some tribute fond I fain would give. 
The bravest-blended colors live 
In dead leaves of the dying year. 

gray old walls ! O fair green shade, 
Where idle sunbeams listless strayed, 
Or glittering moonbeams white and cold 
That lightened through the maples old 
The dandelion field of gold! 

Through shadowy courts and halls I stray, 
While ghostly shadows speed away — 
The old walls seem deserted while 

1 scarcely note the lightsome smile, 
The buoyant step no longer hear, 
But lives an echo far and near, 
And farther still, and faintly seems 
Like bugle-melodies in dreams. 

No faces now that erst were known 
Along the gray old seat of stone, 
But figures weird, and gaunt, and old, 
Rise strangely up and frowning fade 
Before me through the gloomy shade. 
By arch, and corridor, and gate, 
Quaint faces grow from out the gloom 
That once looked down in solemn state 
Now long years buried in the tomb. 
Here Horace passes slowly by, 
Half love, half satire in his eye, 
With old Anacreon, whose lyre 
Love ripples in its golden strings, 
Faints with the ardor of his fire 
And dies among its echoings. 
There Sappho, ever fair and young, 
Plucks, with low eyes, some fancy sweet 
That coyly hides itself among 
The twinkling daisies at her feet, 
While yonder, stretched upon the green, 
A quaint long-bearded man is seen 
With anxious face and troubled look, 
Scanning the pages of a book; 
Beside him on his elbow propped 
Another form its book has dropped; 
Slow from the lips the smoke-wreaths rise 
And skyward lead the dreamy eyes. 
The first, then, turning grave and slow, 

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With accents neither high nor low, 

But in the middle voice, exclaimed: 

"O bard by seven cities claimed, 

It aches itself, my weary head, 

To find out what indeed I said, 

Though once I wrote it plain. Can you 

Tell me the thought you had in view 

In 'bridge of battles'? Was it 'bridge,' 

Or did you truly write it 'ridge'? 

Bold metaphors, I ween, must needs 

Be used to chronicle bold deeds; 

When Hector's plume exultant seeks 

Encounter with our father Greeks, 

Or Ajax bids his friends deploy 

Along the windy plains of Troy." 

The bard shook out his long white hair 

And said: "I little know or care 

What Scaliger or Poppo wrote — 

You'll find it all in Anthon's note — ■ 

Euripides, take my advice, 

I'm Homer, lucid and concise. 

For centuries I groaned and grew 

Distracted more and more like you. 

Whenever I was certain quite 

Of what I'd truly meant to write, 

Some new edition would come out 

And plunge me deeper into doubt. 

And now, Euripides, I say, 

Let commentators have their way, 

They've learned their trade, these men, and know it, 

They want no guidance from the poet; 

And if you wish to read your plays 

With easy mind these summer days, 

Drop Leipsic texts, my trusty crony, 

And do as I do — use a pony; 

That's what I've learned — and that is why 

I'm blowing smoke-wreaths to the sky!" 

How far the silence seems to fall ! 

How bends about us in the glow 

The great calm sky that arches all 

Of hope and promise that we know! 

So, with full heart revisiting 

The halls where faith and friendship grew, 

Though Time may still his triumphs bring, 

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This moral still I sadly drew — 
So, with bowed heart revisiting, 
I feel it deeply, sadly true, 
Whatever braver poets sing, 
The old is better than the new! 

We move through some translated wood, 
Some dim cathedral solitude; 
We lift our eyes toward the light, 
Still sinking lower from our sight, 
To catch at last when day is done, 
Through the faint jar of branches low 
Paling the crimson western glow, 
The aureole of the setting sun! 



FORTIETH YEAR REUNION, 1908 

The record of this reunion is not in possession of compilers. 
There are on file letters from the following, regretting inability 
to be present: George N. Burt, Oswego, N. Y.; W. H. Clark, 
Cortland, N. Y.; W. H. Snyder, Port Huror, Mich.; David 
Spraker, Jr., Rochester, N. Y. Mr. Burt, practising law at 
Oswego; Mr. Clark, president Cortland Standard Publishing 
Co.; Mr. Snyder, living semi-retired on small farm at Port 
Huron, Mich.; Mr. Spraker, unable to attend reunion on ac- 
count of illness, had been in Rochester four years practising 
law. At this reunion W. S. Hunter, '68, of Schenectady, in- 
vited the class to meet with him. It was proposed at this re- 
union to meet again in 1909. 

J. H. Robinson 

President 

D. M. Dunning 
Secretary 

FORTY-FIFTH YEAR REUNION, 1913 

Reunion on Monday, June 9, 1913. Dined at 7 p. m. at 
Mohawk Hotel. On Alumni Day members of the class present 
marched in procession, and later had photograph taken on 
Campus. After dinner meeting held; present — F. P. Bellamy, 
D. M. Dunning, G. M. Ingalsbe, E. C. Jordan, J. T. Mott, W. L. 
Pearson, J. H. Robinson, W. Scott, J. B. Y. Warner. Letters 
were read from the following: G. N. Burt, Oswego, N. Y.; 
T. S. Callender, Mariner's Harbor, New York City; C. C. 

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Scott, Jordan, Ingalsbe, Robinson, Dunning 
Bellamy, Mott, Warner 

Calkins, Longmont, Col.; W. H. Clark, Cortland, N. Y.; 
J. E. Sharpe, Ossining, N. Y.; W. H. Snyder, South Haven, 
Mich.; T. J. Sutherland, Ch'cago, 111.; George Westinghouse, 
New York City. D. M. Dunning, secretary and treasurer, 
made his report as treasuier which was accepted. Some dis- 
cussion as to a brief history of '68 followed, and a committee 
was appointed to prepare the same. After a long evening pleas- 
antly spent together, adjourned. 

J. H. Robinson 

President 
D. M. Dunning 
Secretary 



FIFTIETH YEAR REUNION, 1918 

The class took part in procession on Alumni Day morning, 
Saturday, June 8, and was awarded the Waldron Cup for 1918 
for the most successful rally of the day. A class photograph 
was taken later on the Campus. Members attended alumni 
dinner at noon, when Classmate Robinson, president of '68, 
presided. They met for class dinner at the Montauk Club in 

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ooo 

QUI? HALF CENTURY 
REUNION 



Dunning, Noble, Scott, Calkins, Clark, Jordan, Robinson, Bellamy, Mott 

the evening. Present — F. P. Bellamy, C. C. Calkins, W. H. 
Clark, D. M. Dunning, E. C. Jordan, J. T. Mott, J. H. Robin- 
son, W. Scott. J. G. Noble who was present during the day 
returned to New York Ci :y before evening. Treasurer Dun- 
ning's report accepted. Some discussion about class history 
which was finally referred to Messrs. Dunning and Clark to 
provide in such way as they judge best. Letters were read 
from a number of members of the class giving their personal 
history for the class record. Letters were also received from 
the following: W. E. Davis, Closter, N. J.; J. B. Mclntyre, 
Birmingham, Ala.; W. L. Pearson, Schenectady. A. J. Mc- 
Naught, Jr., Stamford, N. Y., writes his father has been 
ill for several weeks and hence unable to attend the reunion. 
Miss Mary E. Lawler, for twenty- two years the secretary of 
Judge Ingalsbe, writes a beautiful letter about his last illness, 
his great interest in the class, and his intention to collate mate- 
rial for the class Record which was prevented by his final sick- 
ness and death. The recent deaths of Classmates Ingalsbe 
and Warner, both of whom were present at the forty-fifth anni- 
versary in 1913 and hoped to be present at the fiftieth, led to 
many expressions of sorrow and of appreciation of their amiable 
characters and worthy careers. After several hours at dinner 

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and the later meeting, the company joined hands about the 
table and sang Burns' song of friendship, " Should auld acquaint- 
ance be forgot." On Commencement Day the degree of A.M. 
was conferred on F. P. Bellamy, and that of Doctor of Humanity 
(D.H.) on Dr. W. L. Pearson. Meeting adjourned in hope to 
meet again. 

J. H. Robinson 

President 
D. M. Dunning 
Secretary 




Thou grand old seat of stone, 
Thou jolly seat of stone, 
Then here's to thee right merrily, 
Thou grand old seat of stone. 



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THE OLD ELM 

O brave old Elm, beneath thy spreading arms 

How many youth have smoked the pipe of peace, 

And, pledging friendship, full of strength and hope, 

To face life's high adventure have gone forth. 

In age beneath thy spreading arms we meet 

To pay a tribute to the friends of youth 

Whom ancient Time, scythe bearer, has laid low. 

Once more our mutual friendships here we pledge, 

And forth again the high emprise of age 

To carry on. 

O dear old Elm, friend of our youth and age, 

Hail and farewell! 



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